The Winners have been appointed

The winners are:

Category 1: Comfort and Accessibility
Winner: Livrit
Justification: The winner of the “Comfort and Accessibility” category is the app LIVRIT. Livrit focuses on social inclusion and urban mobility for persons with disabilities. In a user-friendly platform, Livrit gathers information on both accessible areas and those that need improvement. Besides, Livrit helps authorities to better understand public needs.
Link: livrit.com.br

Category 2: Experience the Olympics
Winner: RioGo
Justification: the winner of the “Living the Olympics” category is the RioGo app, by SkedGo. RioGo will make mobility planning a lot easier during the Olympics and other events, as it seeks convenient travel options and facilitates the arrival of the public to competition venues. The application will also serve as legacy for the tourists after the Olympic Games.
Link: skedgo.com/riogo

Category 3: Travel Planner
Winner: TRAFI
Justification: The winner of the “Travel Planning” category is TRFAFI. TRAFI has a history of helping Travelers all over the world. During the challenge, TRAFI proved very skillful in presenting many urban transport options for Rio including relevant posts by travellers in different social media.
Link: www.trafi.com

Olympic City Transport Challenge is an exciting cooperative venture bringing together industry, research, society and open data to develop new services for urban mobility. Join us for a ride!

Rio de Janeiro, with approximately 12 million people within the metropolitan area, is working towards its goal to be a modern high-technology city with an efficient transport system. In recent years the region has made large investments by expanding the metro system, developing bus rapid transit etc. The public transport system is now significantly improved to meet both the needs of everyday users in the city as well as temporary visitors coming to Rio de Janeiro for vacation or events such as the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

However, there is currently a need for more useful information services regarding public transport and and other types of urban mobility. This issue is especially important for inexperienced travellers like temporary visitors and tourists. And this what Olympic City Transport Challenge is all about.

By using open data provided by the city and other transport actors we invite anyone who has ideas and knowledge on how to turn open transport data into useful digital services. Read more about the contest, explore the open datasets, and register to enter!